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re: ‘It is full blown crisis already’ farmers say
Posted on 4/29/25 at 2:41 pm to OchoDedos
Posted on 4/29/25 at 2:41 pm to OchoDedos
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Peter meant to say the Mega Conglomerates like ADM, Cargill, and Koch
These and other such entities will continue to sell to China but the cargos will be consigned to other destinations before being "resold" by the original "purchaser" and the shipments redirected to China thru various devious manipulations. Maybe the vessel has to lay up for a couple of days in an intermediary port to make it look right on the books, but the cargo stays on board and is "resold" by that original "buyer" to avoid the politics.
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Posted on 4/29/25 at 2:44 pm to Rip Torn
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Of course farms get subsidies to grow corn for ethanol
no they don't
Show me what usda program gives ethanol subsidies
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corporate farms but those corporate farms aren’t singular farms in many instances. They are 3-4 large farms consolidated under a corporation to produce said corn for said corporation at the expense of the corporation which receives subsidies that they pass on to the farmers
Give me a real life example of this
If this is happening all over - it shouldn't be hard to find
Posted on 4/29/25 at 2:56 pm to Figgy
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For highly perishable crops it’s a challenge. Margins are low to begin with and with costs going higher on all fronts it makes it difficult to plan. If we lose markets we’ll have a glut of product needing to find a home and quickly. In those situations it causes prices to crash. That puts growers in quite the predicament. Sell at a partial loss, or much smaller margin (which will crack double digits in a good market) and lessening your profits, or in a worst case scenario not selling it and eating all of the losses because the market is flooded to begin with. As a result the food supply becomes unstable in the following years because they’ve lost money and they can’t just eat the losses. So they plant less acreage.
And what about annual equipment payments that you have no revenue to help pay? What about property taxes or land payments that are due regardless? If you are a farmer who rents ground you either have to pay the rent without any revenue or let the ground go and not have it to farm the next year
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:03 pm to Midtiger farm
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no they don't Show me what usda program gives ethanol subsidies
Correct. Most subsidies are based on benchmarks for crop pricing. Market prices fall below the benchmark, the farmers can apply for the subsidies to make up the difference.
Posted on 5/6/25 at 9:03 am to wareaglepete
Too much welfare for farmers. Instead of helping family farms, we are subsidizing corporations.
Time to cut back or stop the practice.
Time to cut back or stop the practice.
Posted on 5/6/25 at 9:06 am to Seldom Seen
Cattle prices are high right now so it obviously isn't effecting every aspect.
Posted on 5/6/25 at 9:22 am to LARancher1991
How come this shite thread is not anchored while the idiocy about the markets in April was?
Posted on 5/6/25 at 10:19 am to LARancher1991
Seen a lot of farms selling off cattle at the current prices to offset losses in the grains.
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